{"id":871413,"date":"2025-09-08T01:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/egypt-tops-global-list-for-cesarean-section-rates-reaching-a-record-72\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:12:28","slug":"egypt-tops-global-list-for-cesarean-section-rates-reaching-a-record-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/egypt-tops-global-list-for-cesarean-section-rates-reaching-a-record-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt tops global list for cesarean section rates, reaching a record 72%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tie-wrapper\">\n<header id=\"theme-header\">\n<\/header>\n<div role=\"main\" id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"the-post\">\n<div>\n<figure><img width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/amayei.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2022\/06\/KkXH6-1655826836-229615-blog-hypatia-h_ec7096397f8dcbedc27f7f6bbc6f59ef-h_463c67ef39903115b5f224a6cb089036-780x470.jpg\" alt is_main_img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t high angle view of cute baby girl sleeping in her bed, photo taken indoors.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Dr. Doaa Al-Alfy, Deputy Minister of Health and Population for Population and Family Development Affairs, stated that Egypt leads the world in cesarean section rates, which reached approximately 72% in 2021. She noted that these rates are a worrying indicator for the medical system related to childbirth operations.<\/p>\n<p>During her appearance on the Studio Extra program on the Extra News Channel, Al-Alfy explained that natural childbirth is the medical standard, while a C-section is a surgical procedure whose rate should be globally limited to just 10%.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that in 2000, Egypt\u2019s rates were low, much lower than in many neighboring countries. However, the rate began to rise gradually, reaching 28% by 2008, at a time when the United States\u2019 rate was only 33%.<\/p>\n<p>She continued by saying that by 2014, the rate had doubled to 52%, making Egypt the third highest country globally for C-sections at the time.<\/p>\n<p>With the continuous increase, Egypt topped the list in 2021 with a record 72%. El-Alfy attributed this escalation to deficiencies in the medical system, urging a re-evaluation of medical practices concerning childbirth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a id=\"go-to-top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/#go-to-tie-body\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span>Back to top button<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Al-Masry Al-Youm <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.egyptindependent.com\/egypt-tops-global-list-for-cesarean-section-rates-reaching-a-record-72\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>high angle view of cute baby girl sleeping in her bed, photo taken indoors. Dr. Doaa Al-Alfy, Deputy Minister of Health and Population for Population and Family Development Affairs, stated that Egypt leads the world in cesarean section rates, which reached approximately 72% in 2021. She noted that these rates are a worrying indicator for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":871414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28579,1424],"tags":[47619,9295],"class_list":{"0":"post-871413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-egypt","8":"category-global","9":"tag-egypt","10":"tag-global"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}